Alberto is an 18-year-old Mexican American who is applying for a college scholarship from a university that few Mexican Americans attend. During the interview he is much less articulate than usual and has difficulty making eye contact with members of the interviewing committee. He feels certain that they did not expect him to display the necessary level of intelligence. Alberto may be experiencing:

stereotype threat

Explanation: this a form of psycological threat. Here a person is worried or agitation about proving or confirming the negative notions of people about a stereotype group, ethnicity, gender or race is true or real.thia type of threat tends to affect the performance of student or people in a school, place or organization. When there is not stereotype threat, people give in their best without thinking twice about anything they do but when stereotype threat is involved like racism to people of a particular color then it makes the person's performance to be hindered to an extent because the person may believe he or she will be judge by the colour of his skin or race and he or she is usually tensed or agitated because he or she does not what him/her to be judge by that.

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